Quotes by Spanish Authors - Page 4

The indescribable pleasure—which pales the rest of life's joys—is abundant compensation for the investigator who endures the painful and persevering analytical work that precedes the appearance of the new truth, like the pain of childbirth. It is true to say that nothing for the scientific scholar is comparable to the things that he has discovered. Indeed, it would be difficult to find an investigator willing to exchange the paternity of a scientific conquest for all the gold on earth. And if there are some who look to science as a way of acquiring gold instead of applause from the learned, and the personal satisfaction associated with the very act of discovery, they have chosen the wrong profession.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
It’s madness to see life as it is and not how it should be.
Knight of the woeful countenance
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Pablo Picasso
Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.
Manel Loureiro
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Miguel de Cervantes
Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
José Ortega y Gasset
At the bar on the Favoritenstrasse, Julius the policeman talked to us about dignity, evolution, the great Darwin and the great Nietzsche. I translated so that my good friend Ulises could understand what he was saying, although I didn’t understand any of it. The prayer of the bones, said Julius. The yearning for health. The virtue of danger. The tenacity of the forgotten. Bravo, said my good friend Ulises. Bravo, said everyone else. The limits of memory. The wisdom of plants. The eye of parasites. The agility of the earth. The merit of the soldier. The cunning of the giant. The hole of the will. Magnificent, said my good friend Ulises in German. Extraordinary.
Roberto Bolaño
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Miguel de Cervantes
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate nor pain which death does not terminate.
Miguel de Cervantes
He who sings scares away his woes.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whatever direction we took, we'd never be able to choose our own destiny.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Someone once said: "We do not make friends, we recognize them." And you'll know who they are because they play according to the same rules that you do.
Ken Niimura
Later, Aldapuerta spent two years at medical school where he learned the geography of the human body and something of its almost infinite capacity for suffering anddegradation. He took especial delight in tending to the physically incapacitated and wasthankful for the loose coats that “prevented the matrona from spotting the engorged cock that I would occasionally press against the bedridden patient”.
Jesus I. Aldapuerta
People beleived that the most devastating part of a war are the corpses with their guts out in the open, the puddles of blood, and all that you can capture at first glance. But sometimes the horror is off to the side, in the lost look on the face of a woman who's just been raped, as she limps away alone within the ruins, trying to keep her head down. Gerda and Capa were not aware of this yet. They were too young. And that was their first conflict. They still believed war had its romantic side.
Susana Fortes
We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
An individual is no match for history.
Roberto Bolaño
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dalí
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. It was the early summer of 1945, and we walked through the streets of a Barcelona trapped beneath ashen skies as dawn poured over Rambla de Santa Monica in a wreath of liquid copper.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.
Mario Vargas Llosa
I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Fear is the start of wisdom.
Miguel de Unamuno
There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
You must study the Masters but guard the original style that beats within your soul and put to sword those who would try to steal it.
El Greco
On the one hand, it is in and through creative minds that the community fulfils itself at its best and reaches its highest forms; and on the other, it is from them that the community recovers the social substance with which it had nourished them, transfigured by their creative alchemy into a still higher social substance. The creative evolution of his community and his own creative evolution must always be the two earnest purposes of the individual. Its own creative evolution and that of the individuals in its midst must always be the two earnest purposes of the community.
Salvador de Madariaga
Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing and God everything.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dalí
All wars are full of stories that sound like fiction.
Javier Cercas
Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul. The characteristics of the person in love must be attributed to love itself.
José Ortega y Gasset
He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in a library - hardly the kind of man any girl your age dreams of ...
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Depression is rage spread thin.
George Santayana
What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong?
Manuel Azaña
There is remedy for all things except death - Don Quixote De La Mancha
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Freedom is not an individual effort.Yours comes only when you grant others theirs
Sergio Aragonés
Faith is the summit of the Torah.
Solomon ibn Gabirol
That's a pretty story,' said Afanasievna as she let go of Ansky's genitals. 'A pity I'm too old and have seen to much to believe it.'It has nothing to do with belief,' said Ansky, 'it has to do with understanding, and then changing.
Roberto Bolaño
One of the various theories proposed to explain the negative result of the famous Michelson-Morley experiment with light waves (conceived to measure the absolute space), was based on the ballistic hypothesis, i.e. on postulating that the speed of light predicted by Maxwell's equations was not given as relative to the medium but as relative to the transmitter (firearm). Had that been the case, the experiment negative results would have not caused such perplexity and frustration (as we shall see in forthcoming sections).
Felix Alba-Juez
«No es que yo sea bueno, es que los demás son tan malos que la comparación se revela imposible.»
Salvador Dalí
The trouble with a great sadness is that it doesn't fit inside your body.
Manuel Rivas
I have no time in the world but the time in which I amand that lasts a moment and passes like a cloud.
Samuel ha-Nagid
All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.
Núria Añó
Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.
Antonio Machado
...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.
Félix J. Palma
No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
Maimonides
An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.
Salvador Dalí
We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worshipped her... I could not resign myself to the loss of a being on whom I counted to make invisible the unavoidable blemishes of my soul.
Salvador Dalí
There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.
Roberto Bolaño
Why do you think politicians send soldiers to the wars they declare, if, of course, they still go to the bother of declaring them. . . . mediation, keeping a distance from the actual events and being privileged enough not to have to witness them.
Javier Marías
Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
While I don't equate the dark night with depression, I do think our depressive moods could be imagined spiritually rather than only psychologically.
San Juan de la Cruz
Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
1My father says a hunch is your brain’s way of taking a short cut to the truth,’ replied Max.‘He’s a wise man, your father. What else does he say?’‘That the more you try to hide from the truth, the quicker it finds you.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
George Santayana
At five in the afternoon. It was exactly five in the afternoon. A boy brought the white sheet at five in the afternoon. A frail of lime ready prepared at five in the afternoon. The rest was death, and death alone
Federico García Lorca